It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being

It's not inexplicable including Narendra Modi, he just put all the names down that were in the original thread. The original thread didn't specify tech as being important. Adding additional names because somebody else asked for it is hardly a major issue, it's just the nature of HN polls - there's no time to do a nomination phase then voting because if you don't act straight away, you're not going to get on the front page and nobody will vote. (Although this seems to have been flagged off anyway...)